Re: best mouse

Posted on 2020-06-26, 05:51

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by foil_fresh

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intellimouse 1.1, 1.0, 3.0 all good. i remember getting a logitech optical usb/ps2 back in 2001 - i used the ps2 adaptor for a year before realising my pc's usb ports existed. switching to usb was very eye opening, didn't think the change would be so drastic. my intelli 1.1 lasted from 2003 to 2010 …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-24, 07:23

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested some of my favorite DOS games using my recently acquired AWE64. I was mostly interested in the AWE32 mode, but I had a surprisingly decent experience with FM synthesis using CQM. Despite all the trash talk about it, CQM definitively sounds much better than what Creative's later cards like …

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Re: My Collection of Retro Video Cards 1998-2008

Posted on 2020-06-24, 04:58

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Video

Jam wrote on 2020-06-24, 00:23: image1.jpg Radeon 8500 NIB niceeeeeee

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Re: My Collection of Retro Video Cards 1998-2008

Posted on 2020-06-23, 06:36

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

i would like to get a few missing from my timeline - I have a Riva 128 and a TNT2 ultra (needs repair), Geforce 2 MX400, but then the next i have is an FX5600, 6800GT, 7950GT OC, 8800GTS, 9800GTX+ ending the original naming scheme. Geforce 1, 3 and 4 along with a TNT1 would be good to have. AFAIK …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 has no Wavetable under 98SE DOS

Posted on 2020-06-23, 03:09

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Sound

hey so I wrestled with a similar issue a year back, using an nforce2 board along with the same aureal card (mx300). i had to install the windows driver only pack that excludes DOS drivers. got that pack from phils' site. the nforce2 chipset simply cannot route the dma/irq info correctly needed for …

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Re: What is this video corruption?

Posted on 2020-06-19, 02:09

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Video

Seems that one had some know issues. Have you tried the patch already? I'm not vouching for this download -- I'm including this link because it describes & shows a graphics issue it fixes. http://sierrachest.com/index.php?a=games&id=129&title=die-hard&fld=tech yeah pretty sure i tried that patch …

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Re: What is this video corruption?

Posted on 2020-06-18, 05:01

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

so i have an athlon xp system that runs on an nforce2 chipset along with a 9600xt agp - it is great in all win98 games except one - die hard nakatomi plaza. i've got 3d models all over the place, weird shadows and texture overlays, stretched and bloated elements, the list goes on. it's the only game …

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Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?

Posted on 2020-06-16, 06:34

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by foil_fresh

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in Milliways

yes

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-06-15, 06:59

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

i think the issue with enaiel's setup is that the usb controller is taking irq 11 the pci sound card must take irq 11, then the dsdma/setupds will use ddma to interact via irq 5 for the sb/sbpro data transfers. (i think this is how it works?) but again i might have it wrong as your chipset is …

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Re: Using Audigy drivers with a Sound Blaster Live 5.1

Posted on 2020-06-12, 07:34

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

lol i've done the opposite. I have an audigy platinum eX that simply won't work with any driver from any audigy cd i have found. it might be some oem dell/hp variant. The error I get is the "could not detect an audigy card in this system, setup will close" or something like that. Forcing the drivers …

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Re: Asus P2B-F Slot 1 Retro PC

Posted on 2020-06-12, 05:20

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

nice and slick build bud. i'm digging the phillips CRT - the netcafe I would go to had these and they were really good performers. big nostalgia.

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-12, 05:12

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

CNR cards... i've never touched or seen one of these in my life. neither network/modem/audio or whatever. really hope you get it up and running!

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Re: 1998 rebuild with Pentium II and Voodoo 2 SLI

Posted on 2020-06-12, 05:06

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The SB128 might be a bad FM card but it's General MIDI from within windows is decent so it's not too awful. I've had crystal sound cards that suck doing everything 😜

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Re: 1997 Pentium MMX Rebuild

Posted on 2020-06-10, 04:11

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

sweet boombox bro!

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2020-06-04, 04:55

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

i had to turn off a3d and also set sound quality to low on a p3 667 / voodoo 3000 system not too long ago to get some stable framerates at 800x600. a3d ate about 20-30% of the cpu's performance and the higher quality takes abother 5-10%. a pentium 3 450 would still dip to 15fps in some areas. ended …

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2020-05-29, 13:59

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by foil_fresh

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so i've been trying to play some build games using the VESA modes but i get the error saying it's not going to work and that i can try univbe. i tried univbe but it says chipset unsupported. blood and duke3d atomic showing the same thing in dos or windows. my system: nvidia riva 128 agp 4mb (ASUS …

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Re: HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-29, 04:04

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

i was running my mx300 in a pentium 3 667 system - a bunch of games didn't play well with it - dark forces 2 jedi knight being the worst, giving me bad positional audio, sometimes flipped, other times the samples played too fast or not at all. music was fine, speech was fine, but everything else was …

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Re: CT1740

Posted on 2020-05-29, 03:55

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Sound

is there a jumper on board that changes the output from amplified to a normal line-out? would bypass the volume wheel and the issues with it.

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Re: Help trying out a silly multiple soundcard idea

Posted on 2020-05-29, 03:53

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Sound

unsure about the keyboard issue but using a mixer to mute the fm on the sblive and to mute the sfx of the crystal card. might do the trick

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Re: SB 16 & SB AWE64 in same system as means to get around hanging note bug? (i.e. AWE64 as dedicated external MIDI card

Posted on 2020-05-28, 02:51

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

and try unisound ! it's great and so easy.

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